Coronado Beach, San Diego

May 17, 2010

The Coronado Beach at San Diego is really beautiful, though we could not spend too much time there…

Here’s the namesake Coronado Hotel, dominating the beach:

We crossed the Coronado Bridge, with its lovely view of the Marina and downtown San Diego:
The Guard House is itself a beautiful structure:
I got the tourist trolley going past an antique house on the waterfront:
Cycling is very popular, and I love the children's trailers, too:
There are apparently lots of people who walk around with metal detectors...they find a lot of cans, some coins, but are perhaps hoping for buried treasure!
There were gulls everywhere; in the air:
On the sand:
House sparrows, too...on the ground:
and in the palm trees lining the Marina...can you see the female with nesting material, so well camouflaged against the tree?
There were other things in the air, too; this kite...
which reminded me of
this one at Creve Coeur Lake
Fighters thundering overhead (Miramar Air Force Base is close by) :
Here's a 360 degree view of the beach from our vantage point:

The grasses and the rocks were themselves so colourful and picturesque!